Secrets of Mastering Excel
Inspired by a comment thread yesterday [1] I made this mini site: https://excel.secretgeek.net/ Reason: I often want to share Joel Spolsky's famous "You Suck at Excel" video tutorial with "important" business people inside the large enterprise where I work. But it would be easily misconstrued as trolling if I sent a business customer a URL that literally tells them, right in the heading, that they "suck" at excel. So, as advised by user @TuringTest (in the thread mentioned above) I created a mini site, on its own sub-domain, that is palatable to a business mindset, and…
Secrets of Mastering Excel launched on July 13, 2019 with 16 votes, #756 of 3,007 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Secrets of Mastering Excel is a website that repackages Joel Spolsky's "You Suck at Excel" video tutorial under a business-friendly name. Created to help enterprise workers improve their spreadsheet skills without the off-putting original title, it provides the same instructional content but with a more professional presentation suitable for workplace recommendations and email signatures.
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Inspired by a comment thread yesterday [1] I made this mini site: https://excel.secretgeek.net/ Reason: I often want to share Joel Spolsky's famous "You Suck at Excel" video tutorial with "important" business people inside the large enterprise where I work. But it would be easily misconstrued as…
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